At only 15 years old, a promising political future looms for the exuberant and self-confident Jan-Evald Pedersen Hardlei - but the political career will be short. 3 years later, he is left as a murderer, and the victim is his former childhood friend.

One November evening in 2018, the 28-year-old family man Rasmus is at a pub in Hadsund, as so often before. That same evening, 40-year-old Petrea went to town to party with her friends. During the night, a chance meeting develops so fatally that it will shake not only the local community, but the whole of Denmark.